BC: ONE SURE PATH TO IRAQ CIVIL WAR
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BAGHDAD) — A majority of Iraqi lawmakers endorsed a draft bill calling for a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops and demanding a freeze on the number already in the country, lawmakers said Thursday.
The legislation was being discussed even as U.S. lawmakers were locked in a dispute with the White House over their call to start reducing the size of the U.S. force in the coming months.
The proposed Iraqi legislation, drafted by the parliamentary bloc loyal to anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, was signed by 144 members of the 275-member house, said Nassar al-Rubaie, the leader of the Sadrist bloc.
IMO, Bush should encourage this 'democratic exercise' of Iraqi draft legislation to move forward. Wasn't this the goal of inserting democracy into Iraq? If Bush cherishes our Declaration of Independence wouldn't he applaud an Iraqi version too?
How come our US MSM, along with Bush, are not trumpeting far and wide to the US public that the Iraqis want us to leave soon? How come the Democrats are not taking up the clarion call too? Why do they want to keep the unwashed masses un-informed?
Or is it all about OIL ??
"Play out the rest of the chess game: Shi'ites ask Americans out. America, who should have never been there anyway, with a declining and breaking will, reluctantly begin to leave. Shi'ites show patience. Sunni's are terrified. They know they are facing a hell beyond any they have known.
Americans now almost completely gone. The Sunni slaughter begins.
Saudi Arabia and other Arab Sunni nations, having sworn to protect the Sunni's begin to pour in money and weapons. Al Quada makes sure the Saudi's get a message. We are brothers, Sunni's despite other differences, will defend Sunni's. The Saudi's, in hopes of keeping the catastraphe out of Saudi Arabia, agree. We will allow Al Quada to be the force on the ground, mobile, fast, and with a huge world following as the murderers of Americans in New York and the Pentagon, he can stop the slaughter, and more importantly keep the Shi'ites and Iranians at bay.
Iran pours money, weapons in from the East, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, pour it in from everywhere else.
It is now a fight for Sunni survival as they face Shi'ite expansion.
America's allies are running scared. Having cut the Iraqi's loose, they know that we do not have the ability or the will to defend them.
Two nations decide the future: Saudi Arabia. Can the regime survive? They are loading the planes to get out before they face complete catastraphe and death.
Qatar: America's hope for supply of natural gas, and the headquarters of CENTCOM, the headquarters for all U.S. Persian Gulf operations. Can it survive? We now must decide. Will we make the WWII type effort, and can we? Our European friends are content to let us suffer. They are working deals to get back into the oil game that the U.S. drove them out of in Iraq.
They owe us big time. The EU will enjoy seeing the Americans destroy themselves, as surely as they once enjoyed the Soviets do the same.
There are under a million native citizens in Qutar. If the Americans will not hold, they are dead. They have been the strongest American ally in the region. They have the third largest reserves of natural gas, the most by far per capita in all the world. Almost no home consumption, but vast reserves.
They are wealthy beyond words, a juicy target.
The refugee problem begins to take off. Everyone who is educated or has been associated with the West will be in danger of slaughter. They must try to get out, it will be their only hope.
Oil prices? Well, let's just say they may be high enough by then to cause most folks to check out conservation. Natural gas markets in Japan, U.S. and southern Asia will be in turmoil. The U.S. will be sitting with half built LNG recieving terminals but no contracts for gas to put in them.
Leaving aside oil, the humanitarian catastrophe will be horrendous. The ecological situation will be a poison pit, and oil and natural gas infrastructure will be destroyed in the crossfire. The vast new real estate developments
in UAE, Dubai and Qatar will be in danger of complete destruction at a cost of billions. Tons of new construction turned to scrap.
And one nation will get the blame. The United States of America. This will have been our baby from the start. As Colin Powell once said in a Public TV discussion, "There are some dark forces there, forces you do not want to release."
They are about to be released. All decent people will pray for Arab and Persian brothers and sisters. Even if they are not big on the power of prayer, they will do it just in the hope that it will help them.
The first post I ever wrote for TOD was over a year ago. It was about Qatar, and the terrible strategic failure that the Iraqi invasion has turned out to be.
Peak Oil? If the Americans simply abandon these people, we will NEVER have to worry about geological peak. The oil will stay under the dunes for decades, perhaps for eternity.
When I think of peak, I am interested, and looking for the fascinating array of solutions and challenges, looking at a new energy paradigm with hope.
When I thing of Iraq, abandoned, with no way to defend itself from the slaughter...I shudder. I cannot come up with a better reaction. This could be horrific. And it was so needless. "
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